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Events from the year1809 in the United States.

• President:

Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia) (until March 4)

James Madison (DR-Virginia) (starting March 4)

• Vice President:George Clinton (DR-New York)
• Chief Justice:John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR-Massachusetts)
• Congress:10th (until March 4),11th (starting March 4)

• February 3 –Illinois Territory is created.
• February 11 –Robert Fulton patents thesteamboat.
• February 17 –Miami University (Ohio) is established (by Act of February 2) on the township of land required to be set aside for it under the conditions of theMiami Purchase in 1794.
• February 20 – A decision by theSupreme Court of the United States states that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state.
• March 1
  • Non-Intercourse Act passed to replace theEmbargo Act of 1807.
  • Illinois Territory is effective.
• March 4 –James Madison is sworn in as the fourthpresident of the United States, andGeorge Clinton is sworn in for a second term as the fourthvice president.
• May 5 –Mary Dixon Kies becomes the first recipient of apatent granted to a woman by theUnited States Patent and Trademark Office. She invented a technique of weavingstraw withsilk andthread.^[1]
• August – Following refitting, theUSS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") is recommissioned as the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron.^[2]
• October 11 – Along theNatchez Trace inTennessee, explorerMeriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand. It is considered an alleged suicide though some evidence suggests murder.
• December 30 – Wearing masks at balls is forbidden inBoston, Massachusetts.

• January 18 –Richard C. Gatlin,Confederate Army general (died1896)
• January 19 –Edgar Allan Poe, author, poet, editor and literary critic (died1849)
• February 12 –Abraham Lincoln, 16thpresident of the United States from 1861 till 1865 (assassinated1865)
• February 15 –Cyrus McCormick, businessman and inventor of themechanical reaper (died1884)
• February 20 –Henry W. Wessells,Union Army general (died1889)
• March 1 –Robert Cornelius, pioneer of photography (died1893)
• March 15 –Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st and 7thpresident of Liberia (died1876 in Liberia)
• April 21 –Robert M. T. Hunter,Virginian lawyer, politician,14thSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives,2nd Confederate States Secretary of State (died1887)
• July 24 –Charles W. Cathcart, Portugal-born United States Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1853 (died1888)
• August 1 –William B. Travis, lieutenant colonel in theTexian Army (died1836)
• August 15 –Albert Pike, Confederate military officer, attorney, writer, and Freemason (died1891)
• August 27 –Hannibal Hamlin, the 15thvice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (died1891)
• August 29 –Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician, "fireside" poet and polymath (died1894)
• September 20 –Sterling Price, 11thGovernor of Missouri,United States Army brigadier general in theMexican–American War,Confederate Army major general in theAmerican Civil War (died1867)
• September 21 –Sophia Hawthorne, painter and illustrator and wife ofNathaniel Hawthorne (died1871)
• September 27 –Raphael Semmes, officer in theConfederate navy during theAmerican Civil War (died1877)
• October 11 –Orson Squire Fowler,phrenologist and leading proponent of theoctagon house (died1887)
• October 22 –Volney E. Howard, politician (died1889)
• November 4 –Benjamin Robbins Curtis,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died1874)
• November 13 –John A. Dahlgren,United States Navy officer, inventor of theDahlgren gun (died1870)
• November 23 –Horatio P. Van Cleve,Union army general (died1891)
• December 3 –Thomas Alfred Davies, Union Army brigadier general (died1899 in the United States)
• December 5 –Graham N. Fitch, United States Senator from Indiana from 1857 to 1861 (died1892)
• December 10 –George Goldthwaite, United States Senator from Alabama from 1871 till 1877 (died1879)

• January 20 –Thomson J. Skinner, politician (born1752)
• January 21 –Josiah Hornblower, statesman and delegate forNew Jersey in theContinental Congress in 1785 and 1786 (born1729)
• March 6 –Thomas Heyward Jr., signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation (born1746)
• April 6 –Hardy Murfree, soldier (born1752)
• June 8 –Thomas Paine, political activist, philosopher,Founding Father of the United States and author ofCommon Sense (born1737 in Great Britain)
• October 11 –Meriwether Lewis, leader of the Corps of Discovery (born1774)
• November 4 –Gabriel Manigault, architect (born1758)

• Timeline of United States history (1790–1819)

• William S. Appleton, Robert C. Winthrop. "Original Bank Circular, 1809". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 11, (1869–1870)
• Thomas H. Shoemaker. A List of the Inhabitants of Germantown and Chestnut Hill in 1809. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 16, No. 1 (April, 1892), pp. 42–63
• An Itinerary to Niagara Falls in 1809. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1900), pp. 200–202
• Ellmore Barce. Governor Harrison and the Treaty of Fort Wayne, 1809. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1915), pp. 352–367
• Charles Lyon Chandler. United States Shipping in the La Plata Region, 1809–1810. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (May 1920), pp. 159–176
• Joshua Gilpin. Journal of a Tour from Philadelphia Thro the Western Counties of Pennsylvania in the Months of September and October, 1809. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 50, No. 1 (1926), pp. 64–78
• A trip from Fort Wayne to Fort Dearborn in 1809. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 36, No. 1 (1940), pp. 45–51
• Edwin J. Hipkiss. A Cabinetmaker's Bill: Boston, 1809. Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Vol. 45, No. 259 (February, 1947), pp. 12–14
• Noble E. Cunningham Jr. The Diary of Frances Few, 1808–1809. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 29, No. 3 (August, 1963), pp. 345–361
• William G. McLoughlin. Thomas Jefferson and the Beginning of Cherokee Nationalism, 1806 to 1809. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 32, No. 4 (October, 1975), pp. 548–580.
• Jeffrey A. Frankel. The 1807–1809 Embargo Against Great Britain. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 42, No. 2 (June, 1982), pp. 291–308.
• James M. O'Toole. From Advent to Easter: Catholic Preaching in New York City, 1808–1809. Church History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (September, 1994), pp. 365–377

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